I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

You're a monster. You'll go to hell.""Of course I will. Someone needs to take the throne.

One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.